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Michael Woolcock on Social Capital in Wealth

The welfare returns to investing in trust could be substantial. Michael Woolcock discusses research (conducted together with Kirk Hamilton and John Helliwell) that uses social trust data from 132 nations covered by the Gallup World Poll, presenting a range of estimates of social trust’s wealth-equivalent values.


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Eoin McLaughlin on Genuine Savings 1900-2000

Eoin McLaughlin presents research (conducted with Matthias Blum and Cristián Ducoing) on the long-run development of Genuine Savings (GS) using a panel of eleven countries during the twentieth century.